Intuitive Color Quilt Stories in Abstract Piecing with Sherri Lynn Wood
5 Days Monday – Friday, July 27-31, 2026
A great story begins with well-defined, diverse characters. You will be guided to create abstract patchwork characters based on color, shape and rhythm, and incorporate them in a single narrative quilt. Learn to express color intuitively by tapping into your heart centered relationship with color, through memory, emotion and environment. Learn freestyle piecing techniques with simple shapes and strips. Learn composition strategies for integrating your diverse characters into a cohesive, engaging quilt story, rich in conversation, and aligned with your truth.
A practiced improviser observes and is familiar with their intuitive sense of color and their signature cut. Just like us, our line, patterns and colors both evolve AND remain essentially authentic. — Sherri Lynn Wood
Skills & Techniques
- Tap into meaningful authentic narratives waiting to be told
- Learn to piece abstractly and improvisationally through a heart centered approach
- Basic ruler free techniques for piecing simple shapes and strips
- Darting on and across the seam when patchwork bubbles
- Ironing strategies to make the most of your line
- Order of sewing / utilizing filler to equalize different size sections
- Improv composition strategies
- Centering exercise to tap into your presence, emotion, truth and early color memories to create diverse intuitive color characters that carry meaning
- Incorporate rhythm to further define characters
Skill level: All levels
All QBL workshops begin on Monday and end on Friday. Workshops are from 8:30 am to 4 pm daily. Students check in to their dorms and move into classrooms on the Sunday before the workshop begins. There is a welcome dinner with a lecture Sunday night.